I'd like some recommendations for good singers. The only requirements are:- An amazing voice- Not in EnglishI don't care male/female, solo/duet/group, kpop/opera, whatever. If you can post a YouTube link so I can get an idea of what they sound like, so much the better. Thanks!Edit: I'm not sure if that counts as posting copyrighted material, but I guess if YouTube is okay with it that means it's okay?

And you probably know this guy for that one hit he had, Une belle histoire, but his other songs are pretty sweet as well, so check that out if you're into french pop from the 90's.

And despite what has been said about this band, you can't deny that the singer has a great voice. Rammstein are a bit notorious and probably have a bad reputation to anyone who isn't into metal, but seriously if you're not convinced of the fact that they're worth listening to, listen to this. My 56 year old mother who thought they were Nazis was convinced and even told me she would like to see them live.

Anyway, in stead of trying to match your vague descriptions I just posted most of the "foreign" music I love.

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This is the first song I heard fromSiddharta. I don't understand Any of it, but I like everything they've made, except their metal album (I think it is called Japan).

A whole album, really the only one I ever listened to, by Myslovitz, out of Poland.

It is best I not get startedonDDT. Well, I'll leave it at that. I saw them live in June 2005 in St Petersburg, and bought all their albums before I left Russia. Propavshi bez Vesti was the newest, and still is one of my favorites, not that I know what most of those songs are about.

Do you have any way to narrow down what you consider an "amazing voice"? About 80% of the music I listen to (among the music with vocals) isn't in English, so I could probably make some suggestions, but it's a rather wide net. If I had some idea of what you like right now then it might help -- or even a few more adjectives might help. KF

Kizyr, I deliberately made a wide net; my tastes are somewhat eclectic. Just looking for international music preferably with a focus on vocal talent.If that's too vague, then maybe something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHRcuPtURE

Dude, we have art music (or "classical music", or "whatever")! We have bombastic choruses in Italian by Puccini, bombastic arias in German by Wagner, haunting melodies in French by Delibes, and skin-tearing songs in Russian by Shostakovich. Granted, though, these blokes are just the ones that wrote the tunes. You need some folks to actually play them!

Some of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-F-wmPo2T0End of Act 2 of Puccini's TurandotThe prince solves the last of the Turandot's three riddles, thus winning her as his wife. She is a bratty little witch, though, and cries to her daddy, the emperor about it. Prince totally bro's out by offering Turandot a riddle of his own, for her to figure out his name. If she can figure it out by the next day, he will die. Awesome! This company done a good job.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlr90NLDp-0(This is Latin, right?)A blast from the past and INCREDIBLY beautiful. Echo it through your chambers and be the talk of the hamlet.

boviex wrote:Kizyr, I deliberately made a wide net; my tastes are somewhat eclectic. Just looking for international music preferably with a focus on vocal talent.If that's too vague, then maybe something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHRcuPtURE

Édith Piaf was the vocalist that made that tune famous. You should listen to her.

In terms of sheer vocal ability (but also sheer eclecticism), Yma Sumac is a winner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6eKroZeIgShe's often claimed to have the widest non-falsetto vocal range ever.

For fascination with language, I enjoy listening to Mani Matter just to let the strange sounds of Swiss German wash over me. It's also amazes me how much of a sense of comedy and even irony comes through in the way he sings his lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty7gj3TACyo

Area, the Italian jazz-rock band, is a good call. The vocal capabilities of Demetrio Stratos are severe. His solo work is wildly experimental, while his singing with Area was more focused and restrained. Impressive either way.

Tuvan throat-singing in general is a pretty unique use of the human voice and by definition usually not in English. A good place to start is Yat-Kha, as they have some Western elements in their music (and one CD where they cover Joy Division, Hank Williams Sr., and Kraftwerk). If you dig that you can move on to Alexei Orgrodov.

I like those artists a lot: in French: Zaz, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm88QAI8I5A and Stress, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWgLF1u1yXMand in Italian: Noemi, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ufVJHMPz4 and Lunapop, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Cq9Lz_BtM

There is also really good Hungarian pop music, you can find some here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MR2Music/videos (MR2 is an Hungarian radio station).